Wire fence.



No. 769,180. PATENJIED SEPT. s, 1904.-

' W. N. PARRISH.

WIRE FENCE.

APPLIOATIQN FILED NOV. 20, 1903.

N0 MODEL.

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P TENT OFFICE.

VVILLIAM N. PARRISH, OF RICHMOND, INDIANA, AS SIGNO R F ONE-HALF TO WILLIAM B. ALFORD, OF RICHMOND, INDIANA.

WIRE FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Paar No. 7 9,1 0, dated September 6, 1904. Application filed November 20, 1903, Serial No. 181,905. (No model.)

- citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Richmond, in the county of l/Vayne, and in the State of Indiana, have invented new and useful Improvements in- Wire Fences, of

which the following is a specification; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and complete description of the invention and its manner of construction, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My present invention has reference, broadly, to a newform of fabric designed particularly to be used in the manufacture of fencing.

My present invention has particular reference to a new article of manufacture, a wire fence; and it consists, essentially, of the novel manner of weaving or interlocking the line and stay wires in the course of the manufacture, thereby not alone producing a novel design, but removing the tendency of the parts to disaline and eventuating in a concrete entity for the better adaptation of the product to the objects desired.

The object of-this invention, broadly speaking, is to provide a wire fence so constructed that uniform tendency will be imparted by all its parts in all directions and capable of being stretched laterally from either terminus without distortion of the parts Another object of my invention is to provide a woven-wire fabric which will be selfcompensating when being strung or positioned, as in a fencethat is to say, that the upper or lower portions of the fence will not gain in length in the process of stretching to the proper tension to form a fence.

Another object of my invention is to produce a woven-wire fence composed of horizontal linewires and vertical stay-wires forming substantially trapezoid shaped meshes and in which the line-wires and the stay-wires are securely interlocked ateach of the intersecting-points.

Another object is to produce a wire fence with aplurality of line-wires and a plurality of cross stay-wires forming substantially trapezoid meshes to produce a newarrangement and set up, stretched, and secured in position .at a mlnlmum of expense and in straight and regular order.

A still further ObJQCt is to produce awovenw1re fencing having horizontal llne-wlres and vertical stay-wires which may be manufactured 1n sectlons of great length and when desiredmay be set upand stretched in either "direction and secured to posts without distortion of the fence or displacing the stay-wires from the perpendicular, and, finally, another object is to produce a wire fence so constructed I that the torsional pressure of the various parts 5 will be equipollent, whereby the fence may be drawn taut in its final positioning Without distorting the contour of the meshes or causing a difference in the length of the upper and lower portions thereof, which has been the trouble I have found in my former make of fence. (Illustrated in the accompanying drawings.) 1

Other specific objects and advantages of my invention will be made manifest'in the following specification, and the construction shown .in the accompanying drawings will make clear the invention to any one inspecting them.

My invention relates to the construction clearly shown in the accompanying drawings,

Figure 1 shows a section of my improved fence in elevation. Fig. 2 shows an enlarged detail of a portion of the above, and Fig. 3 is 5 a detail of a fence heretofore produced by me to illustrate more clearly and comprehensively my present invention thereover.

Similar indices refer to like parts in all of the views. 9

The numeral 1 designates the bottom linewire, and 10 the top line-wire, of my fence, with intermediate line-wires 2, 8, 4:, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 substantially parallel therewithand with each other and spaced apart, preferably substantially as shown in Fig. 1.

The numeral '20 denotes each a stay or substantially perpendicular wire crossing the intermediate line-wires and interlocked therewith by the angular loops A, secured to the bottom line-wire 1 by the horizontal twist B, as shown, and secured to the top line-wire by the horizontal twist C, as shown.

In my present invention (shown in Figs. 1 and 2) it will be apparent that the loops A and the twists B and C are identical with that of my prior invention, (shown in Fig. 3,) the only point of difference being that each alternate line-wire, as 3, 5, 7, and 9, is looped with the stay-wires 20 in the opposite direction to that of the other wires and to that shown in Fig. 3, thus forming the loops of said alternate wires to be disposed at right angles to the loops formed by the stay-wires and the line-wires 2, 4, 6, and 8.

By the above it will be seen that the meshes D in my present invention will be of a contour in the nature of a trapezoid, whereas the meshes E of the form shown in Fig. 3 are in the nature of a rhomboid.

In the manufacture of the two styles of fencing shown in the drawings the line-wires are drawn through the machine in the direction of the arrows, (shown in all of the figures,) and in the operation of forming the design of fence shown in Fig. 3 the wires are all bent in a direction such as to cause their torsion to be in one direction, which by actual practice I have found will in the positioning of the fence cause the upper part of the fence to gain on the lower when stretched in one direction, while if stretched in the opposite direction the lower part of the fence will gain on the upper. In my new construction herein shown the above trouble is entirely obviated, and I find that the torsional force of the wires is equally distributed in both directions, as they are formed alternately in opposite directions, thereby allowing each wire to share alike in the increment of the strain applied, and thus eventuating in a resultant equal pull both on the upper and on the lower portions of the fence.

From the above description,taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, it will be apparent that I have produced an improved wire fence embodying the objects and overcoming the objections otherwhcres referred to in this specification.

Vhile I have shown and described the best means to me known at this time for carrying out my invention in a practical manner, ll dcsire it to be understood that .I do not restrict myself to the exact details of construction shown and described, but hold that any changes or variations therein as would suggest themselves to the ordinary mechanic would clearly fall within the limits and scope of my invention.

Having now fully shown and described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

In a wire fence the combination, a plurality of parallel line-wires disposed horizontally unequal distances apart, a plurality of independent stay-wires contacting and entwining with the line-wires at oblique angles, the ends of the stay-wires being twisted around the upper and the lower line-wires with the adjacent horizontal twists disposed in the same direction, the line-wires and the stay-wires being connected at each crossing-point by angularly-disposed single twists, the twists at each alternate line-wire being oppositely disposed to the twists of the other alternate linewire, all substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing-witnesses.

\VILLIAM N. PARRISIL Vitncsses:

1%. E. RANDLE, R. W. RANDLE. 

